A Princess of Last Resort

With the and the royal family silenced, a must flee from murderous invaders. Will and her half brother survive the frigid wilderness and find the allies that they need to fight back? , a half elf mage attending the Arcane University and very distant heir to the throne of Civilia, thought that this was going to be a nice walk in the woods. She had dragged along her older half brother , a half orc journeyman ranger, so that he could help her to collect some material components for the new school year. Neither of the Blackstaff siblings expected their little trip to be interrupted by . And they certainly had no clue that a ragtag mercenary army would use this natural disaster as an opportunity to the sovereignty of the northern elves. In desperation, they leap through an unstable portal and find themselves ill prepared for the snowy mountains that surround them. Now the and her not only have to survive, but they also need to that can help answer the questions that haunt them: ? Why can nobody reach the elven royal family? Was the firestorm a natural event, or something far more sinister? Finally, who are these invaders, and ?